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Hermit Prints — A Truth Universally Acknowledged

This project was for the anthology A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” by Duck Prints Press.

With this third installment in our Queer Fanworks Inspired By… anthology series, we set out to explore the truth by which we at Duck Prints Press live: that a classic work without a single canonically queer character must be in want of a very LGBTQIA+ makeover! A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” queers up this classic with 21 short stories and 20 full-page color artworks. 38 creators contributed to this project, drawing inspiration from the story and characters in Jane Austen’s enduring romantic classic to create delightful, thoughtful, intriguing, and (of course) very queer fanworks and Pride and Prejudice-inspired original works. Grab your reticule, don your favorite cravat, pour yourself some fragrant tea, and join us!

This is in the A4 format, with white paper and matte cover options. The final books had 310 pages. The cover art is by Aceriee.

If you’d be interested in getting your story typeset and ready to print, please visit my commissions page.

You can purchase the print and ebook versions from Duck Print Press. A Black and White version is also available through most book retailers.

The book, in all its thickness and glory. Along the related merch that can be bought on the Duck Prints website!

Sample interior page, featuring the tags and inspiration for the story.

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I realized that I made a thing and then proceeded to not share!

Witness: a collected anthology of @astolat's HP fic, typeset by @hermit-writes because friends are wonderful, and given as a holiday present. It's CHONKY - one extra page wouldn't have fit into the guillotine - but it turned out really well!

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PREORDER CAMPAIGN IS LIVE

My beloved and most amazin people!

My novella "The Salt in the Sea" can now be prordered as ebook and TB, with some nice merch.

Sea side candle!

Cover Art Print!

On a stormy island a werewolf and selkie fall into a bittersweet romance while solving a murder. It's heartfelt and amazing and I had so much fun writing it.

Get your copies here:

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Pattern : Morning Dew Shawl by Melinda Measor Yarn : Fizwizbiz by Biscotte Yarns, in lavande Beads : Dyna-Mites™, glass, transparent rainbow inside color lilac, #6 I made the largest size of the pattern. To my infinite sadness, my camera refuses to catch the sparkles from the stellina in the yarn.

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Hermit Prints — Scrap Metal Angel

This project was for the novella Scrap Metal Angel by Nicola Kapron, published by Duck Prints Press.

Reality, tiny and fragile, is cut off from the sea of chaos and nightmares that surrounds it by seven Gates. One of them is open—and has been since the Stone Age. Through that opening, strange creatures and energies slip through. Some are malevolent. None are harmless. And all of them must be kept a secret. Every hidden magical world needs a shadowy clean-up crew. Adrian Somer is a Gatekeeper, sworn to protect the cosmic Gates, to defend reality from the unknown entities that exist beyond them, and to help those whose lives are affected by magic. When a grieving sorceress starts punching holes in reality to try and resurrect her murdered fiancé, Adrian must turn to a ghost from his past in order to save the city, and perhaps the world—even if that means digging up someone he thought was safely buried: the twin brother he killed eight years ago.

This is in the digest format, with white paper and glossy cover options. The final books had 142 pages. The cover treatment is by Rascal Hartley.

If you’d be interested in getting your story typeset and ready to print, please visit my commissions page.

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Cover Reveal: The Salt in the Sea by J. D. Rivers

The Salt in the Sea by J. D. Rivers is Duck Prints Press’s next novella release! Meet Thoma and Victor, two men with complex pasts that include a previous bittersweet encounter with each other. The Salt in the Sea is a novella about building a life in the aftermath of disaster, about isolation literal and metaphorical, and about second chances. Oh, yeah, and there’s also a corpse to deal with…

Blurb:

A downtrodden ex-soldier. After leaving the military, werewolf Victor is shunned in his civilian life. Money is tight, so when an ex-comrade offers him an easy job—getting a package from an island—he jumps at the chance. A lost inn-owner. When Selkie Thoma opens the door to a knocking patron, he wants to close it again immediately. Standing before him is Victor, his one-night stand from three years ago. The last thing Thoma wants is to have to explain why he left that night. As Victor and Thoma cross paths unexpectedly, emotions flare anew. But Victor is only on the island for a week, and Thoma can’t face his past, the consequences of his decisions, or the resulting condemnation from his sea-going selkie family. A dead body in a post office. When a corpse is discovered, fingers throughout the community point at Victor. With time running out before justice is served, it’s on Thoma to find out the truth. Because on the island justice is deadly.

Our pre-order crowdfunding campaign for The Salt in the Sea begins April 1st 2025 (no foolin’!), with a minimum goal of $900 US. You can learn more about the campaign, and sign up for our newsletter to make sure you get notified when sales go live!

The cover artist is planetsandmagic.

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[Podfic] You Make Sense of the Devil

It's heeere - part 2! As part of the 2024 @marveltrumpshate fandom charity fundraiser I got one of my fic turned into podfic by the amazing @film-in-my-soul.

And then I commissioned @kingcael for the absolutely stunning and amazing cover art.

Fandom: Criminal Minds (US TV)Marvel Cinematic Universe **Summary: **

A ghost from the BAU past reappears and drags up unfinished business for Aaron Hotchner. The ripples are enough to call back missing team members and spread well beyond the circle of his influence. [Podfic Version]

Rating: M

Pairing: James "Bucky" Barnes/Emily Prentiss, James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes/Emily Prentiss/Steve Rogers

On AO3 : Here

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Learn about Missed Fortunes by Tris Lawrence!

In the first book of the Twinned trilogy, Commit to the Kick, Tris Lawrence introduced readers to Alaric, a freshman at Pine Hills University. PHU is a small liberal arts college in a world similar to our own, but made very different by the long-hidden existence of people with Talents, and the more recent Emergence of Talented people into the public eye. Missed Fortunes, the middle book of the trilogy, continues where Alaric’s story left off. Carolyn, another student at PHU, has tried to keep her head down and avoid rocking the boat as the world has changed around her. But now, it will be her world that’s changing, and she won’t be able to stay uninvolved…

We’re running a pre-order campaign for this middle book of the trilogy through the end of February. We’re already 40% of the way to our goal, but we’d love your help in getting closer. Even if you opt not to back, signal boosts are always extremely helpful and very appreciated.

Pre-order Missed Fortunes now!

Not familiar with the first book? We got you covered!

Read the first chapter of Twinned Book 1: Commit to the Kick.

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We expect to crowdfund the third book later this year, as we’re in the process of editing it right now. Want to make sure you don’t miss the campaign? You can follow the pre-launch page on Kickstarter now!

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Pre-Order “Missed Fortunes” by Tris Lawrence!

Duck Prints Press is excited to open pre-orders on our next novel! Missed Fortunes by Tris Lawrence is the middle book of the Twinned trilogy, a very queer series of books set at the fictional Pine Hills University in upstate New York, focused on the lives of a group of college students trying to navigate all the usual challenges of university while also juggling their individual magical Talents and, oh, maybe sort of kinda the risk of the world ending. Book 1, Commit to the Kick, has been available for sometime, and we are working on editing book 3 for a summer Kickstarter launch with merch and more. Now is the perfect time to grab book 1 if you don’t already have it, pre-order book 2, and get both books read before book 3 goes to print!

The only way to pre-order this book is via the Duck Prints Press webstore!

For this campaign, we are offering both Commit to the Kick and Missed Fortunes in e-book and/or trade paperback formats, and we’re also offering a set of short stories including our published Welcome to Pine Hills University short stories. Make sure to check out the discounted campaign bundles to save money on your books, and note that backers will get a campaign-exclusive bookplate signed by Tris Lawrence!

The only merchandise we’re offering this campaign is our Patreon-exclusive, a postcard of the Missed Fortunes cover art! All pre-order buyers who also support our Patreon at the $10/month or $25/month level will get the postcard as a freebie. But don’t worry – our future Kickstarter will have more Welcome to PHU merch – you can follow that campaign’s pre-launch page right now to be sure you’re notified when it goes live.

We encourage you to check out Commit to the Kick if you haven’t already, and if you have, well, here’s the blurb for book 2…

To solve the problem of now… Remember what lies behind… Pass through your hopes and fears… …to the final outcome. Carolyn knows the Emergence brought her a new community, but it also revealed the existence of people with magical Talent to the scrutiny of the world. Her high school life ended on a tumultuous note, but now that she’s a junior at Pine Hills University, her life has become stable. She has her twin Kit. She has her sorority sisters. She has her Talent and her Tarot cards. But when the Tower appears in a reading, the world shatters and changes. Kit has left his predictive Talent behind, and Carolyn’s own predictive Talent is changing decidedly unpredictably. She’s seeing visions of fire and destruction, of Shadows moving in the darkness and intruding into the light. And her sorority sister Drea and Drea’s brother Alaric have returned from winter break, warning of looming dangers and the risk of Clan going to war. Carolyn shouldn’t get involved—doesn’t want to get involved—but with the world crumbling around her and her predictions hinting at worse to come, she can’t imagine not doing what she can. To make matters worse, the only way forward is to reconcile with her past, but Carolyn isn’t sure how to do that nor why it seems so important to the world that she does.

Learn more about this campaign today!

This campaign will end at 8 a.m. Eastern time on March 1st 2025.

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Monsterotica: Now Recruiting Author Applicants!

Exciting news, everyone! Duck Prints Press is now accepting applications from authors interested in contributing to our next erotica anthology. Monsterotica: Tales of Unusual Courtship and Coupling will feature 15 stories, each up to 7,500 words, focused on how monsters court and bed their bedmates! We want your beasts, your creatures, your cryptids, your part-humans; we want them to have genitalia unusual and exotic; and we want to see how they pursue a liaison, in the streets and in the sheets.

Who are we? We’re Duck Prints Press, the indie micro press founded by fancreators for fancreators! We focus on working with fanauthors and fanartists to publish their original work – the more LGBTQIA+ the better! To join one of our projects as an author, you must be 18 or over and have posted at least 3 separate works (minimum 10,000 words) of fanfiction on a publicly accessible site such as Archive of Our Own. If that describes you, and you saw “monsterf*cker” and your eyes lit up, you should consider applying! Learn more!

Rules and Guidelines

FAQ

Schedule

…and more!

Applications close January 20th, 2025.

This may be the only time we open author applications in 2025, so if you’re interested, seize this moment. Our schedule for the second half of the year isn’t finalized yet, so we may open them again in the fall or early winter, but no promises. We expect to recruit artists next sometime in the spring.

Authors new to Duck Prints Press can apply using this form!

Written with us before and want to do so again? Use this form instead!

Questions? Drop us an ask on Tumblr or e-mail us at info@duckprintspress.com.

Not interested in applying but love what we do? Support us on Patreon! Our backers chose this anthology theme.

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Hermit Prints — A look back at 2024

Published Books

I’ve worked on several books for @duckprintspress as well as some independent or self published projects. Novels, novellas, and anthologies for all tastes!

Independent / Self-Published

Aphelion by S.E. Crane

Horizon’s Crown was an Earther triumph; a stage at the frontier of the settled systems, a city of hope and dreams and infinite potential.      Then one man bit another. Now, under the watchful eye of its orbital island, it straddles the line between dead and dying; a city of nightmares and endless sorrow. Varrett Vild Vickers belongs into a pilot’s chair. He’s meant to dodge asteroids, to race dragons, not chase credits so he can pay rent while HC’s major demographic clicks its teeth at him and tries to eat his face off. But it’s fine. Really. He copes.       Or that’s what he tells himself, all the way until a woman falls from the sky and turns his already upside-down life very sharply sideways. Armed with nothing but her worst-kept secret and a ledger of lies, Sophya Soulwright tricks her way into Horizon’s Crown, looking for not only her sister, but for redemption and a meaning to a life she’s never held dear.        What she finds instead is a city trying its hardest to live, and a man who courts death every step of the way. He’s infuriating, tireless, and after a glitch binds their souls together, he is now stuck with her.

The Edge of a World by JD River

A monster lurks under Otar’s skin. It has destroyed lives and Otar lives in fear when it will escape his grasp again. But he isn’t the only thing that seems out of place in this world: a mysterious ancestor, the Ancients, left behind nothing but ruins and questions. After the monster causes a tragic accident, Otar chooses to travel the Seven Lands to find answers instead of being executed. But time is running out. When the summon for a newly discovered ruin comes, it’s his last chance to clear his name. On his journey he faces down slavers looking for easy money, and his former lover – who still makes his heart beat faster. Then the excavation site finally reveals the truths about the Ancients, and it becomes clear that something bigger lurks in the shadows. Otar’s connection to his monster could save them all from a catastrophe – but will he be willing to sacrifice it all? The Edge of a World is a Fantasy Sci-Fi story about self-discovery, destiny, and paving your own path.

New Year, New You: A Speculative Anthology of Reinvention — ‎ Immortal Jellyfish Press

An anthology of diverse speculative fiction exploring themes of reinvention, re-imagining, and revolution, from Elizabeth Bear, Daryl Gregory, and alumni of the 2023 Viable Paradise Writers’ Workshop. New Year’s resolutions and self-help gurus ask us to reinvent ourselves—be better, prettier, perfect. But the writers featured in this anthology know that promises of reinvention contain both potential and pitfalls.  One woman’s doppelgänger offers her a chance to fix her flaws — for a small price. One of Cinderella’s stepsisters discovers what she has to sacrifice to create her own fairy tale. Coffee shop regulars debate surviving an impending apocalypse if it means losing espresso. Against the wishes of her family, an eel-person yearns to reveal her true nature. A lonely, sentient ship and her human employee must learn to trust each if they both want to survive. A showgirl in a backwater lunar cabaret seeks cosmic fame—and will do anything to get it New Year, New You contains stories of rediscovery through time-travel, simulations, and distorted realities. Of reinventions that challenge deeply held beliefs or require a change of perspective. Of mind and body alterations that interrogate desire and self-image. From some of the emerging voices in science fiction and fantasy, comes a mind-bending collection of twenty-four tales that span the vast reaches of magic and space and delve into the intimate spaces between people.

Duck Prints Press

Aether Beyond the Binary

How would Earth look if the very atoms around us were suffused with magical aether? How would our lives be different if this aether was discovered last year, or last century, or last millennia? How might the people who lived with this magic explore their gender identities? These are the questions we posed to the 17 authors who contributed to Aether Beyond the Binary. Their inventive answers comprise this must-not-miss collection about magical realms, adventures and mysteries, new chances and well-earned endings, and characters as gender-diverse as the worlds they inhabit.

To Drive the Hundred Miles by Alec J. Marsh

Serendipity, WA is filled with Christmas cheer, beautiful mountain views, and trans man Will’s feminist Wiccan family. Home for the holidays, he avoids their clumsy attempts at support by hiding in the local coffee shop and flirting with Bea, a friend from high school. The beautiful landscapes can’t make up for the the realities of being queer in a small town, and Bea wants out. Will grabs for a prosperity spell, and finds a new way to connect to the magic he’s become estranged from. New romance and optimism get them through the holidays, ready to face their next problems.

Hockey Bois by A. L. Heard

Nick Porter has always loved hockey. Ever since he can remember, it’s been his favorite thing in the world. It’s too bad he never learned to play, he’d tell himself, but it was too late to do it now. Adults don’t just magically learn to skate and join a hockey team. That’d be ridiculous. Except maybe they do? On a whim, he decides to sign up for an adult  beginner’s class. He learns to skate, joins a team, and meets a really hot teammate… and it’s pretty much a disaster from there on out.

Many Drops Make a Stream by Adrian Harley

A memory-stealing cult. The ever-watchful City of Eyes. Making small talk. Join Droplet as she faces all these horrors and more… Vigilante shapeshifter Droplet has trained her entire life to take down those with more power than scruples, but she still makes mistakes. When a rescue mission goes wrong, a memory-stealing cult of blood mages escapes with kidnapped captives in tow. To save them, Droplet reluctantly teams up with the outgoing, tenacious Azera. Droplet knows better than to trust a human—she made that mistake once, and that person’s betrayal scattered her community across the known world—and she can tell Azera is hiding secrets behind her sunny smile. But if they can’t learn to work together, even Droplet’s own memories could be lost.

Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica

For those who love their short stories spicy, we’re delighted to bring you Duck Prints Press’s debut explicit anthology Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica. In this collection of brand-new stories, we celebrate many flavors of polyamory. Orgy? Yes please! Ménage à trois? C’est magnifique! Foursomes and moresomes? Delighted to attend! We asked our contributors to blow our minds with their fun combinations, unusual settings, favorite trope usage, and (of course) super sexy smut—and they didn’t disappoint. From a vampire free-for-all to a heartfelt reunion, from surprise soulmates to enemies-to-lovers, this collection has polyamory in lots of scrumptious varieties that lovers of erotica won’t want to miss!

Fanbinding

I also did typsetting for fanbindings! Three were bound by TheBookishPause, one was for this year’s @marveltrumpshatete auction, and one was for the ever delightful @ltleflrt!

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Aaaahh! My second commissioned piece came in.

This is Leash, one of my favorite all time OC that was born in a Shadowrun game. She shows up in my story "Chromaggia".

Art by @drawinglinestoconstellations

Read the story on Ao3

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[Podfic] Her Guns to His Knives

It's heeere. As part of the 2024 @marveltrumpshate fandom charity fundraiser I got one of my fic turned into podfic by the amazing @film-in-my-soul.

And then I commissioned @drawinglinestoconstellations for the absolutely stunning and amazing cover art.

Fandom: Criminal Minds (US TV)Marvel Cinematic Universe **Summary: ** Emily is exposed and alone and, again, she runs. This time, he follows. [Podfic Version] Rating: E Pairing: James "Bucky" Barnes/Emily Prentiss On AO3 : Here

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Reblog if you write fanfic and would be totally down with your followers coming into you askbox and talking to you about your fic

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Small Business Saturday Deals from Duck Prints Press

The busiest shopping weekend of the year is upon us, and I’m delighted to share (though sorry for adding yet more advertising to your life) that Duck Prints Press is running two big sales this weekend!

Kickstarter Flash Bundle

The Kickstarter campaign for our next anthology, A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice,” is nearly 85% funded with 6 days left before the end. We’ve still got a bit to go to hit our base goal, though, and we’d love to hit some of our awesome stretch goals to get backers more rewards (without them having to spend a penny more!) and to get our contributors more pay!

To help us reach this goal, we’re offering a bonus flash reward level for new backers and current backers who’d like to upgrade: get A Truth Universally Acknowledged, all our campaign merch, AND e-book and print copies of all seven of our past anthologies, all for one massively discounted price of $290 – a savings of almost $100 over the list prices for these items! (Small print but not small: This level is US-only, and the $290 doesn’t include shipping.)

This is the best price we’ve ever offered for our anthologies! Wondering what Duck Prints Press is all about? This is your moment! Amazing books at an amazing price – now through Monday December 2nd!

Small Business Saturday Coupon

Saturday November 30th is Small Business Saturday, the day to show small and local business you appreciate them – and for us to show we appreciate you by offering great deals! Duck Prints Press has a whole lot of new things now available for the occasion, and we’re running our best sale of the year – 20% your entire (pre-shipping) purchase!

Use coupon code duckysbs01 to save 20% off your purchase, and check out our new shop listings!

Scrap Metal Angel by Nicola Kapron e-book and trade paperback

Scrap Metal Angel two-sided bookmark

Scrap Metal Angel Adrian and Kade poster

Scrap Metal Angel two-postcard set

In Good Company by Nicola Kapron trade paperback

Puppetry by Nina Waters trade paperback

Moongatherer by Willa Blythe trade paperback

Lightbringer by boneturtle trade paperback

Dux Prints Lanyard

Musketeer Dux die-cut sticker

Desire Dux die-cut sticker

Barista Dux die-cut sticker

…and so much more awesome stuff in the Duck Prints Press webstore!

Did you know? People who back our Patreon can get discounts at our shop year-round! $3/month and $5/month backers get a permanent 10% off coupon, backers at the $7/month and $10/month level get 20% off, and backers at the $25/month level get a whopping 30% off purchases from our webstore – the lowest price available – the whole year!

Join Duck Prints Press in shopping small this weekend – by backing our Kickstarter, and/or by visiting our store! And we hope you have a wonderful holiday season.

Coupon small print: Coupon usage and terms apply. Offer valid only on online purchases made between Friday November 29 and Monday December 2. Can be redeemed on US and international orders. Shipping & handling and sales tax do not qualify for discounts. This offer cannot be redeemed for cash or gift cards, cannot be applied to past purchases, and can only be used once per purchaser. May not be combined with other coupons, discounts, offers, or promotions. Void if altered, copied, transferred, auctioned, or sold. Valid for use purchasing in-stock items only. No rain checks issued. Other restrictions may apply. Cash value 1/10 cent USD.

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Hermit Prints — Omega and the Beast

This project was for the story Omega and the Beast by @ltleflrt

This is in the “6×9” hardcover format, with cream paper and glossy dust-cover options. The story has 106,411 words and the final book has 315 pages.

Covert Art by Rezal.

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Toastystats: Happy anniversary, Goncharov fandom!

In honor of two years since Tumblr went nuts over Goncharov, I've archived my original stats and analyses (including discussion/stats about the prevalence of femslash in the fandom), and I've done some follow up analyses.

Click through to AO3 for more data and discussion, and for any clarifications/corrections.